"Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic."

<h3><b><u>Book Review of </u></b><b><u>"Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic."</u></b></h3><p dir="ltr">Coedited by outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe, <i>Displacement City</i> is an anthology of more than twenty authors contributing prose, poetry, and photography. It explores the lived experiences of homelessness and the efforts of frontline services in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic. Divided into three parts, the book champions collective action from tenacious yet exasperated community organizers against an alarming backdrop of inadequate responses by city authorities to provide for those without a home.</p><p dir="ltr">Predominantly written in an emotionally descriptive style of firsthand accounts, with testimonies of anger, activism, and advocacy, <i>Displacement City</i> is personal and persuasive in tone. It begins with a litany of deaths in the unhoused community in Toronto, as a memoriam for prosperity but also a sharp reminder of how the pandemic was suffered inequitably. This sets the scene for a city simultaneously failing to address the triple disaster of a worsening opioid crisis, an escalating homelessness emergency, and a spreading virus. (cont.)</p>